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Aberdeen: the capital for Britains love-cheats

THEY would sell their wives for the price of a buttery, according to the old music hall jokes, but a new study has found that Aberdonians are also more likely than anyone else to cheat on their spouses.

A survey for Cosmopolitan magazine has found that almost half of men from the northeast of Scotland would have a no-strings fling while their partners were out of town — the highest number in the UK.

Loons — as men are known in the local Doric dialect — are three times more likely to be unfaithful, if it was guaranteed that their partners would not find out, than men from the northeast of England.

In contrast to these latter day Casanovas only 14% of women from the northeast of Scotland — known locally as quines — said they would happily sleep with someone else if they knew they could get away with it.